Qui-Gon Jinn wanted to train Anakin despite opposition from the Jedi Council.
He even convinced Obi-Wan to train Anakin, and although the council eventually agreed with that decision, at the time, it ...

In The Force Awakens and The Last Jedi, it was mentioned that Luke Skywalker took on students and started teaching them the ways of the Force before Kylo Ren killed them all and left Luke for dead. ...

In Star Wars, we see that becoming a Force Ghost more or less means the end of a Jedi's regular career. After Obi-Wan becomes a Force Ghost, he refers Luke Skywalker to Yoda for training rather than ...

Compared to a Padawan who is freshly Knighted after passing his trials, like for example Obi-Wan soon after the events of Ep. I, how close is Ahsoka at the point of her departure from the Jedi Order ...

After reading this answer about how Master Kreia was exiled after her padawan turned against the Jedi, I started wondering if it was common for Jedi masters to be reprimanded when one of their padawan ...

In Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, we saw untrained Luke Skywalker hanging upside-down in a wampa's ice cave. This appeared to give him some advantage in teleporting his lightsaber into his hand. ...

Yoda was reluctant to train Anakin in Episode II because he said Anakin was too old to start training (even though Anakin was still a boy). However, in Episode V, Yoda didn't seem very reluctant to ...

We are shown in the original Star Wars trilogy (and even in the prequels...) that Jedi generally require years of focused training to develop mastery of their Force abilities. Notwithstanding certain ...

In both canon and Legends, Obi-Wan and Yoda can choose when to release their retention of consciousness after death. In both canonicities, though, why do they not stay around to help Luke rebuild the ...

Knowing that wielding lightsabers can be extremely dangerous to the uses, have there ever been any accidental, self-inflicted injuries or deaths caused to anyone?
Between the gyroscopic forces that ...

In Star Wars - Episode IV: A New Hope, Luke uses a training remote found onboard the Millennium Falcon as part of his lightsaber training. A picture on the Wookieepedia page for "Training Remotes" is ...

In the movies, the Jedi always seemed to expect everybody to believe in the Force. They also wanted the Republic to trust their powers and rely on them. However, they only trained a few to become Jedi....

There was a lot of discussion at the end of Episode I about training Anakin.
Given that he was highly Force sensitive and there were unknown Sith around, it would seem very dangerous not to take him ...

I feel like I should note that I've watched the Star Wars movies as a kid, but it has been a while, and I may have missed/forgotten a lot of details along the way. Also, the movies are all I've seen. ...

No other Jedi rank seems to have an equivalent 'title' - initiates are Jedi Initiates, knights and masters are Jedi Knights and Masters. Yet only the rank of Jedi Apprentice has this special word for ...

Was the difference in the things that a Jedi Master could do with the Force and the things a newly-Knighted Jedi Knight could do, simply a matter of practice and familiarity?
Did promotion to Knight ...

In TPM, Obi-Wan is a 25-year old Padawan who according to Qui-Gon is not yet ready to take the Trials.
Of course, Qui-Gon changes his tune when he finds Anakin and wants to take the Chosen One on as ...

I have come across some seemingly contradictory information while reading about Yoda's early life. The Wookieepedia entry on Yoda states:
Master Gormo took them to his home where he trained them in ...

Luke began his training relatively late in life (given that the council was hesitant to train 9-year-old Anakin), spent only a few days with Obi Wan and another few with Yoda. Anakin was trained for ...

In jedi order a padwan is trained under one master, at a time a padwan can not be trained under two masters and a master can not train two padwans.
If a padwan is having his training phase where he/...

I'm clueless about the Jedi, and I wanted to know - can you be a Jedi at fifteen? When you started training at five? If your midichlorian count is 13,200? How old do you at least have to be to be a ...

I saw the entire Star Wars series as it was released, starting back in 1977 when I had to ride my bike about 8 miles to the theater where it was showing in my city for the first showing on the first ...